Kanata no Astra Episode 3 Discussion

Faendras said:
1st episode was bad, 2nd was horrible, this was good, just good. This episode at least was not a plot joke where everything is stupid and a nonsense.

Good things:
-A small try about sci-fi stuff... but still failing in a lot of things.
-A little more seriousness, not a continuosly stupid joke when they're on a real survive or die situtation.
-First steps to some real plot instead of a insiped teen drama.

Bad things (a lot):
-Weird sci-fi stuff. Like the artifical gravity system that it's godlike, it not only provides artificial gravity inside of the spaceship, it gives artifical gravity to the spaceship so this didn't fall to the planet (maybe it has some relation with the mechanism to move the spaceship?).
-Another character that should die... but didn't happened. Yunhua, you're in a spaceship, in the space, that is losing it's atmosphere (probably with that holes that should be faster than how it was showed) so, at least, USE UR F***ING HELMET!
-The characters are still fucking idiots without a real reason. Zack, the 200 IQ guy is still commiting stupid mistakes, this time was forget to activate the antimeteorite system. Quitterie is so annoying, just a stupid dumb kid, that's her character. Kanata is still in his role, well, he is a fucking role, not even a real character. Aries... pls, she is just the cute and dumb girl that save the discussions in this stupid drama. Yunhua, I wrote about her before, nothing more to say.
-"There is a killer among us" Well... I think your logic is just wrong. That's a too rushed way to think when I don't really think that flashback conversation could be about kill this stupid kids.
-If there is a real plan to kill this kids... well, it's the weirdest, stupid and useless plan they could make... there are a lot of mistakes, specially if Ball-chan is part of the plan. C'mon, why to put a spaceship instead of letting them die in the space?
-Ball-chan is "good", or random without relation with that supposed plan to kill them, it's just logic... but right now I expect everything from this anime. (Btw, what about it's second encounter?).
-In the (extreme) case Ball-chan is part of the asasination plan... well Luca is the bad guy, he was the one to run into it with his helmet.
-Ulgar... if you're not the bad guy, why do you have what looks like a gun? Was the real bad guy so stupid that didn't hide it decently?
-Guns were banned 100 years ago? Well, I have a lot of questions about that, but... I will say it's just silly.
-Their spaceship just aproached the planet in a straight line instead of getting in orbit before go to the surface, maybe there is some logic about that... but looks so random.
-The artificial gravity cannot be activated because there is a fly? Not even a way to force the activation? Ok... another weird thing.
-A lot of failures in the spaceship, it didn't looked real in any moment.
-All the things that happen in this anime are still looking forced, characters abilities and personalities, everything happens in the right time, characters always survives despite being fucking idiots. Right know it seems like everything acts to agree with a pre-designed plot, personalities and logic twists to complete that plot.



I liked some of the things Vocassen said in this comment, I don't agree whith everything (speacially points 8, 9 and 10), but it's an interesting comment.

Weasalopes said:
We still have no information in regard to how long the ship was there prior to their arrival, nor how it came to be there, nor what happened to its original crew.

When it arrived does pertain in regard to the possibility of a gun being a normal thing to find on board.
It should also impact the ease of use by the pilot; given the amount of change we've experienced in the past 100 years on Earth, but also taking into account the long periods of little or no technological advances we've had in prior times, the changes in ship's equipment and software could be severe or near non-existent.

There's one major problem I've had from the very beginning of this anime: the year it is set. That is, if it's dealing with a society which expanded from our planet and still using the BCE/CE date system, my recollection is that it's set less than 30 years from now... So I have to assume that's not the case. Either they aren't an Earth descended society, or they settled upon a new starting date for their enumeration of years.

In regard to eliminating guns a hundred years earlier...
That's just bogus.
Guns are so low tech that there is no way to prevent someone with a half decent garage shop from manufacturing some fairly sophisticated versions, and that's with our current level of technology. A star-faring society is going to have far more advanced manufacturing equipment available for home use. There is nothing unique to the design of a firearm; there is no core piece of information which if purged from the databases would prevent someone from pulling all the required information together without the purged information impacting other technology crucial to maintaining their society.

The timing of the meteorite was golden.

ETA:
I do wonder just how much power the ship's drive system requires. The cable they strung looked to match current shop use extension cords rated for US household current, and they top out around 120v... and I just cannot conceive of a ship's drive running on that low a current. So they were either constructed from a currently unknown material, or the animation took liberties with the science... Of course, if the power requirements were never provided by the author, there wasn't anyway to do the math to determine the thickness of wire required.

Vocassen said:
2. A puncture that big should rip the air out in seconds (there's vacuum out there after all) and probably rip the hole even bigger in the process. Definitely A LOT more violent than simply some leak in a air bed...

Faendras said:
Their spaceship just aproached the planet in a straight line instead of getting in orbit before go to the surface, maybe there is some logic about that... but looks so random.